Preview: Judge Dent and his wife in "Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance"

[about_faces]

DC's Source Blog--your regular output for official DC PR, previews, propaganda, what have you--has released a four-page preview of Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance which directly focuses on Judge Harvey Dent, his wife, and their twins kidnapped by the Joker. Major spoilers for the end of Flashpoint #1, and although that particular spoiler

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[surrealname]

I stand by my opinion that this sounds and looks stupid.

also, what do people see in azerello? other than that joker and lex strip he did, and his run on hellblazer, everything the man does seems like the same kind of one note boring crime comic that frank miller writes, only when miller writes it it's entertaining because miller used to be talented and is now a glorious train wreck.

i may have to officially declare brian azerello to be fucking clown shoes.

[ext_262094]

For once i agree with you.

[yaseen101]

This.

I liked his work on Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire and Broken City but lately what I keep getting from his work, including this one is a 'haven't I read this story before?' vibe.

Also yeah, I agree this whole thing, including Flashpoint just sounds so stupid.

[surrealname]

this?

what did you mean by "this"

i'm not trying to be a dick, i just honestly never know anymore if something is some kind of internet lingo or short hand. ever since teenagers (i always assume it's teenagers, cause i hate them. even when i was one, i hated them) decided that FTW meant for the win instead of FUCK THE WORLD (which it had for god damn decades) i've stopped assuming i can know what is or isn't typed on purpose on the internet.

[surrealname]

why does thomas wayne look like Luca Brotsi?

call me crazy, but i am pretty sure the waynes are not swarthy skinned sicilians.

yes, i am taking the time to call out the comic for this. and i feel i am well within my rights to do so.

[about_faces]

I think you are too. Even if he had the mustache, I don't know if this character would be in any way recognizable as Thomas Wayne. Nobody looks like anybody else except apparently Jim Gordon!

[1mercystreet]

Hmm. The art's a bit meh, and Mrs Dent REALLY needs to lay off the lip-plumping injections, but it's almost nice to see Harvey in a protectively paternal rage. I've always thought he's the kind of guy who would deperately want to be a father.

You're right though, there's not much about this that says "Harvey." That's especally disappointing given the understated complexity of his character in Azerello's Joker graphic novel.

[about_faces]

I adore this artist's work in 100 Bullets and Broken City, but yeah, I suppose there's not much to write home about with this preview.

[yaseen101]

Yeah... I don't really like this story at all.

I mean, it could be a good story and there are some interesting characterizations but the premise itself pushes my suspension of belief a tad too much.

I find it hard to believe that killing off Bruce Wayne somehow lead to Thomas Wayne becoming Batman. I know this is an alternate timeline and all but I find it hard to believe given what we know about his character and given that whenever there is an AU or depending on the writer, Bruce Wayne/Batman always become more of a dickward or more hardboiled and almost always willing to kill. At this point it's kind of cliche and hard to believe given how many writer perpetrate that idea. It definitely puts a crib in a story that I could otherwise enjoy.

[about_faces]

Well, we still have yet to see just HOW this universe is different, exactly, to see at which point things diverged from the normal timeline... or something... but for now, yeah, it's not really clicking.

[yaseen101]

Yeah, you are right.

But still, doesn't it feel cliche at this point that any Au Bats is either a remorseless killer or a more of a dickward or heaven forbid both at the same time?

One of the few AU!Bats that didn't fall into this trap was an Elseworld's version of him that existed in the Victorian Era.

[about_faces]

Which, the Gotham by Gaslight Batman? I think another version which avoided that trap was the one from Batman: Holy Terror.

Okay how/why would Hush become a villian.

[exposition_man0]

I mean as we can see with Bruce never becoming batman, and getting involved in Harvey's life he never became twoface. So wouldn't Bruce dieing have a similar effect on Thomas Elliot and stop him from becoming Hush. I know Hush was Bruces "friend" before his parents died, and he knew his parents(even going to metropolis with them). But he became a villian because he was jealous of Bruce inheriting his family fortune, and witnessing his freedom. It was a bad uber retcon, but meh it connects the character directly to bruce Wayne

[yaseen101]

I'm more surprised that Hush got a name drop at all.